Cloth-steeper for copying-presses



` (No Model.)

, J. D. MCINTOSH.

'i YCLOTH STBEPER FOR'GOPYING PRESSES. No. 284,460.

Patented Sept. 4, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE..

JAMES D. MGINTOSH, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.`

CLOTH-STEEPER FOR COPYING-PRESSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersePatent No. 284,460, dated September 4, 188,3.

.Application mea May 14,1883. (No model.)

rlb all whom it may concernj Be it known thatl, J AMES D. MolNTosH, a citizen of the United States, 1residingin` the city and county of Milwaukee, andState of W'isconsin, have invented anew and Improved Cloth-Steeper for Copying-Presses, of which the following is a specication. f

My invention relates to cloth-steepers lforr copying-presses, and it is specially `useful in railroad offices where dampening-cloths are used for moistening large sheets of paper from which impressions are to be taken in letter` presses; andthe nature of the invention will 'be fully understood from the following description,"claims, and accompanying drawings,

`in which lattersaturating the cloth for damp ening the inipres' sion-sheets. This vessel, in the main, is coinposed of a single sheet manipulated into the form shown, the singlefsheet portion thereof being made to form a front portion, as a a', `a

bottom portion, a2, a rear portion, a3, a loop or hooking portion, ci, and a table portion, ai. The endportions, a a6, may be of metal cut into appropriate form, as indicated, and

' either tightly riveted or brazed to the front portions, a a', bottom portion, a2, and rear portion, a?, thus forming the vessel to contain the water to saturate the dampening-cloths.

B indicates a stand or holder forthe vessel A, `composed of four legs, b b b b', theupper ends of whichare beveled off and fastened to the sides of a plank, C, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. The plank C is set edgewise between the upper ends oi' the legs b b, as shown, and is made `of a thickness just sufficient to be clasped between the looped or hooked portion at and the rear portion, as, of the vvessel A when the same is in position as shown in said figures. Short braces, as at b2, one of which is shown in Fig. 2, are interposed between the legs b b and serve to hold the legs in proper normal position. The stand B thus constructed, it will'be seen, is very com` taken together and in connection with athird main portion, which l shall now describe, constitute my improved clothsteeper for copying-presses.4

As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, D indicates a clothes -wringer having end standards, d d, which sustain rubber rolls e e, of ordinary construction, provided with an operating-crank,

c2, as shown. The standards d d are supported upon and connected with a semi-cylinder, e, which is 4iitted to rest down upon the curved portion of the loop at, and be securely retained in working position thereon, as signified in the gures, byset-screws g; and thus constructed and applied in position, as in Figs. 2 and 3, my said cloth-steeper for `copyingpresses is complete, the same being compact,

light, cheap, handy to manipulate, durable,

and so formed that no water can come in` contact with wood during its use.

In operation water is supplied to the vessel A, and a cloth immersed therein. An end of the cloth is raised and so put in contact with the rolls e e that when the crank e2 is properly turned the cloth will be drawn up and squeezed between the rolls, and as the water iseXpressed from the cloth it runs down over the part as, back 'into the vessel, only coming in contact with metalportions of the cloth-steeper,while at the same time the cloth properly compressed and left in a dampenedstate is delivered upon the metal table a5 ready for use, and in this manner lavoid many objections to the appliances heretofore in use for this purpose.

, In Fig. 3 l have shown a modified form of my invention applied to a table, E, upon which a copy-press, F, may be used. To one in lieu of this, the clothesteepeigas shown in Fgs.1 and 2, may be applied to one end of the table E, as shown in Fig. 3, the braces b2 of the stand B having been dispensed with, as well as the legs b', except the upper portions IOO thereof, which are properly secured to theA table, as indicated in said gure.

What I claim as iny invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is l l. In combination with Jthe supportingplank C of a wringer, the metallic steepingvessel IA, having its back plate extended upward, then turned over upon the top edge of the plank and downward, so as to forin an in- Verted- U -shaped loop, and then outward horizontally to forni a table or shelf, whereby the vessel can be suspended upon its support, andwhen suspended will serve as a steeping-reservoir, a wringer-support, and a table or shelf JAMES D. MCINTOSH.

Vitnesses:

E. H. LEWELLYN, M. J; THOMAS. 

